What We're Watching: Laurie

The Wrestler directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood.

Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Rourke) is a washed up wrestler. He has been out of the spotlight for twenty years and has had a difficult time adjusting to life outside the ring. Randy does not know how to function in daily life. He has no relationship with his daughter (Wood) and flirts with a woman (Tomei) who works as an exotic dancer at a local club. Randy tries to pull his life together by getting a job at a grocery store deli counter, trying to repair his relationship with his daughter and hoping to cultivate a relationship with "Cassidy", but fails miserably in all three areas. After enduring heart bypass surgery, "The Ram" feels his last hope is to wrestle against his arch nemesis "The Ayatollah" to gain respect from the wrestling community and his fans- the only people he believes truly love him. Rated R.